On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:20:44 PM >> Subject: Re: KDE integration/status for Workstation >> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > On 03/04/2014 09:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> This with my Personal Opinion hat on, not representing QA: >> >> >> >> I'm not sure all/most people who actually want to use Fedora KDE >> >> are likely to be sold on doing it by downloading what they will see >> >> as 'GNOME', installing that, and then installing KDE on top of it. >> >> I think this will be fine for some folks, but there'll be a >> >> significant constituency which just wants a KDE image. >> >> >> >> In fact we might be creating a bit of a problem, because I can see >> >> both "want KDE as an alternative desktop on top of the Workstation >> >> product" and "just want Fedora KDE" as two entirely legitimate and >> >> viable constituencies, which sort of means we've just created a >> >> bunch of extra work for ourselves. I'm not sure I see a clever >> >> magical solution to that, though. Engage brain cells... >> >> >> > >> > I'd suggest that for the Fedora Workstation, we declare that KDE is >> > release-blocking *as an optional component atop the Workstation*. >> >> Please explain this further. Having an optional component be release >> blocking is making my head hurt. >> >> josh > > At the risk of misrepresenting Stephen I think what he means, and what I agree > with is that we declare that KDE is blocking as in 'it should work' before we do > a given release, but it is optional to install for the end user. OK, right. That's essentially what I was suggesting with the testing steps I initially threw out there. At least Matthias seems to think we shouldn't block in this manner, so it seems we have some discussion to do within the WG. josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
